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...important for ghetto children to understand and respect the police, it is just as essential that we whom adults are fond of calling "leaders of tomorrow" also gain insight into the fact that policemen are human beings. I think I get the message...
...airplane -as he did last month when he popped across the Atlantic to pick up an honorary degree from Harvard. Much of his inspiration comes from music. "Right now I'm in a Bach mood," he reports. "Tomorrow it could be Stockhausen. I'm very fond of the Beatles, too." Then, after the first spontaneous burst of creation, come the months-and sometimes years-of revision. "A line," says Miró, "has to breathe. If it doesn't, it's dead, and if you see a corpse, you smell...
...play itself and its current production aside, there are two further matters that may be of interest. it is well known that Shaw was fond of supplying prose prefaces to his plays. Even though Androcles was a short play aimed at children, Shaw considered it important enough to merit the longest preface he ever wrote, running to a hundred pages...
...notorious affair with mediocrity," and engaged in monumental bouts with such employers as Orson Welles and Billy Rose. "Producing," he once said, "is the Mardi Gras of the professions- anyone with a mask and enthusiasm can bounce into it." Yet in his tart, tough way, he was fond of the theater. As he once put it: "Pressagentry can be a gay life for one with detachment, and with an understanding of why the theater's children behave the way they...
...Sharik the dog becomes "Sharikov" the Soviet citizen. He is supplied with identity papers and, except for a tendency to chase cats, is indistinguishable from any other member of the ruling mass. That is to say, Bulgakov suggests, he is stupid, foulmouthed, disrespectful, noisily political, vodka-soaked, treacherous and fond of hideous neckties. After some thought, the professor chloroforms him and reverses the operation. The intolerable Sharikov again becomes Sharik...